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ISAAC NEWTON ARNOLD 
TPEHONAS ILO YN. 


WeEeVORTATL: ADDRESSES 


COMMEMORATIVE OF THE LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF 


HON. ISAAC N. ARNOLD 


LATE PRESIDENT OF THE CITICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ETC, 


AND 


HON. THOMAS GRO INGE 


LATE VICE-PRESIDENT: OF THE CHIGAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ELC, 


DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY, 


TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1884. 


BY 
Hon. E. B. WASHBURNE, 
Hon. THOMAS DRUMMOND, Anpb 
Hon. VAN H. HIGGINS, 


IN RESPECT OF MR. ARNOLD; 
AND 
Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, 


IN RESPECT OF Mr. HOYNE. 


GI Coy. ACTON 
FERGUS PRINTING COMPANY. 
1884. 


re nGO FISTORICAL SOCIETY. 


The Hon. IsAac N. ARNOLD, president of the Chicago 
Historical Society, died at his residence in Chicago, on the 
24th day of April, 1884. At the first meeting of the Society 
after his death, May 20, 1884, the following resolution, offered 


by Judge Skinner, was adopted: 
Resolved, That the Hon. E. B. Washburne be requested 


to prepare and deliver before this Society, at his convenience, 
a Memorial Address, commemorative of the life and charac- 
ter of the Hon. Isaac N. Arnold. 


Before the adjournment, Mr. Washburne, the acting- 


president of the Society, said: 


“T am certain that all the members of the Chicago 


‘Historical Society, and all others present, will have heard 


with emotion the resolution in respect to our late President, 
first presented by Judge Mark Skinner. 

“The Society has met with a great and almost irre- 
parable loss in the death of Mr. Arnold. Long identified 
with it, giving to it his attention and his services, he has 
done much to elevate its character and increase its useful- 
ness. We can never forget with what courtesy and dignity 
he presided at our meetings. Dying, as it were, in the 
harness, he has left us the recollection of an honest man, 
a cultivated gentleman, a good citizen, and an honored 
public servant. At some time in the future, the Society 
will pay appropriate honors to his memory.” 


A regular monthly meeting of the Society was held at 
the Society Rooms, on Dearborn Avenue, Tuesday evening, 
October 21, 1884. After the disposal of the preliminary 
business, Mr. Washburne delivered the accompanying Ad- 


dress. 


BURTON HIST. COLLECTION 
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EXCHANGE DUPLICATE 


Jn Memoriam. 


Pacoeminn es INGE RUN OTT). 


PURE Ss OR HON} hob WASHBURNE. 


GENTLEMEN OF THE CuIcaGco HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 
AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: 

Tue Chicago Historical Society has been called 
upon to mourn the death of our esteemed and distin- 
guished associate, Hon. Isaac Newton Arnold, its late 
president. 

On the evening of 20th of May, 1884, the Society 
passed the following resolution, introduced by our hon- 
ored friend and fellow-member, Judge Skinner, the 
cotemporary and almost life-long friend of Mr. Arnold: 


Resolved, That in the removal by death of Hon. Isaac 
N. Arnold, the Chicago Historical Society mourns the loss 
of one of its original founders, of one of its most active, 
efficient, and reliable members, and its honored and greatly- 
respected president. During all the active years of a long 
and well-spent life, Mr. Arnold had been a citizen of Chi- 
cago, contributing by his indefatigable industry, his unim- 
peachable integrity, his patriotism, his public spirit, his rare 
abilities, his great acquirements, his spotless moral character, 
his high social qualifications, and his instincts as a thorough 
gentleman to give lustre to the city of his residence and to 
the generation to which he belonged; a successful lawyer 
that stood in the front rank of his profession; a cautious, far- 


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seeing, and wise legislator, distinguishing himself in the halls 
of legislation, National as well as State; a successful public 
speaker and a writer of great power and wide-spread popu- 
larity, he has left to the generations that succeed him the 
legacy of a noble example and a good name. 


At the same meeting, another resolution was 
passed requesting me to deliver before the Society a 
‘“Memorial Address commemorative of the Life and 
Character of Hon. Isaac N. Arnold.” It would have 
been well if that task could have been confided to 
some older resident of Chicago, and one better able to 
do justice to the memory of Mr. Arnold. I overcome 
my hesitation, however, when I consider the opportu- 
nity it gives me of appreciating the character of a 
man to whom I was allied by so many ties of friend- 
ship and whom I held in the highest esteem for his 
private and public virtues, for his ability, his states- 
manship, and _ his patriotism. 

At the threshhold of my remarks, I may perhaps 
be pardoned for recalling an incident which took place 
a few months prior to Mr. Arnold’s death. About 
Christmas time, 1883, he sent me an elegantly-bound 
copy of the ‘‘ Proceedings of the Royal Historical 
Society,” which contained his admirable paper on Mr. 
Lincoln, and which, on the invitation of the Society, 
he went to London to read. 

In a letter written on the 20th of December last, 
I acknowledged the receipt of the address, and said: 

“T have re-read your paper with renewed interest, 
one of the most complete and most polished produc- 


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tions that I now recall to mind. ‘The simple and elo- 
quent story of Mr. Lincoln’s life awakens in me some 


of the most pleasant as well as some of the saddest 
memories of that remarkable man. 


You know what answer Queen Katherine made 
to Griffith after his eulogy on Cardinal Wolsey. — | 
would say with her, substituting Arnold for Griffith: 


“After my death, I wish no other herald, 
No speaker of my living actions, 
To keep mine honor from corruption, 
But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.” 


In answering my note on the 20th of December, 
Mr. Arnold says: 


“How strange, as I write, Lincoln’s Shakespeare, given 
me by Mrs. Lincoln and Robert, with his autograph, lies 
before me, the book which so familiarized him with the 
great poet. You, his friend and co-laborer, quote from it. 
I can only promise in reference to him that I shall try to 
be like Griffith, ‘an honest chronicler’. But I have this 
great advantage: Wolsey’s character was made up of good 
and evil, and although he was 


‘A scholar, and a ripe and good one,’ 
yet he had his faults; but of Lincoln, 


‘All the ends he aimed at were his Country’s, God’s, and 
Truth’s.’ | 


And so the ‘honest chronicler’ has but the simple truth 
to tell. 


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You are younger than I, and in the course of nature 
will survive me. Whoever goes first, the survivor will speak 
some kind words.” 


Mr. Arnold has preceded me to that undis- 
covered country from whence no traveler. returns. 
On the 24th day of April, 1884, in peace with himself 
and all the world, at his residence in this city, sur- 
rounded by his sorrowing family, he died, fearing 
God. Surviving him, and witha heart filled with sad- 
ness, it now comes to me in this presence ‘‘to speak 
some kind words” of my friend and our late president. 

Hon. Isaac N. Arnold was born in the town of 
Hartwick, Otsego Co., N.Y. His father was a coun- 
try physician, who while conscientiously attending to 
the demands of his profession added something to his 
limited income by cultivating a small farm in a town 
where all the people were devoted to agriculture. In 
that beautiful county of Otsego, with its picturesque 
scenery, its clear and limpid lakes, and its extensive 
forests, amid a population made up of the best type of 
the American character, Mr. Arnold first saw the light 
of day. It was in that comparative solitude that he 
drew his earliest inspirations and laid the foundations, 
deep and broad, of that future life, distinguished for 
so much honor and illustrated by so many virtues. 
Thrown upon his own resources at an early age, he 
became the architect of his own fortune, and has fur- 
nished an example to the young men of the present 
day, who can see in his career that the pathway to 
greatness and usefulness is opened to all who enter 


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upon it in a spirit of loyal devotion to the great 
objects of life. 

Having prepared himself for the study of law, he 
first commenced his studies under Richard Cooper, 
Esq., of Cooperstown, N.Y., and afterward continued 
them in the office of Judge E. B. Morehouse of the 
same place until he was admitted to the Bar in 1835, 
at the age of twenty-one years. 

Taking up his residence in Chicago in 1836, his 
career from that time was one of honorable success; 
and at the time of his death no citizen of Chicago 
was more widely known and more highly respected 
and esteemed than was Mr. Arnold. The story of 
his professional life must be told by some one of his 
associates at the Bar who had personal knowledge of 
his ability as a lawyer and of the distinction he 
acquired in the practice of his chosen profession. 


Interested always in questions of great public 
interest, he often stepped outside the limits of his pro- 
fession to make himself heard and his influence felt. 
When the question of the repudiation of the State 
debt arose, as was natural for a man of his stamp, 
Mr. Arnold revolted against the proposition, and gave 
the influence of his high character and great ability to 
sustain the public faith. He made himself known to 
the people by voice and pen in his efforts to sustain 
the honor of the State and to have the people stamp 
out the dishonorable but insidious proposition to repu- 
diate the public debt. 

In the session of the Legislature of 1842-3, Mr. 


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Arnold rendered a great and inestimable service to 
the State in carrying through that Canal Bill which 
laid the foundation of our State credit and which con- 
tributed so much to make Illinois what it is today, the 
pride of all its loyal sons and the admiration of our 
country and the world. On all questions of good 
faith and public morality, Mr. Arnold was always on 
the right side; and for the conspicuous service he ren- 
dered the State and the cause of honesty, both in 
public and private life, in a most critical period of our 
history, his memory deserves to be always honored by 
every citizen of Illinois. 

As we all knew him, Mr. Arnold was a man of 
great independence of character, thought, and action. 
Making up his mind as to what was regh/, he always 
acted up to his convictions. He never pandered to 
low tastes or popular prejudices. There was not the 
slightest tinge of the demagogue in all his composi- 
tion. The quotation from Horace, made by Morris 
Birkbeck for the encouragement of Gov. Coles during 
the great slavery struggle in 1823-4, when that great 
and good man was so fiercely assailed by all the worst 
elements in the State for his efforts to prevent slavery 
from defiling the soil of Illinois, might be applied to 
Mr. Arnold with great force: 

“Justum et tenacem propositi virum, 
Non civium ardor prava jubentium, 


Non vultus instantis tyranni, 
Mente quatit solida.” * 


* “Neither the ardor of citizens ordering base things, nor the face of the 
threatening tyrant, shakes a man just and tenacious of principle from his firm 
intentions. ” 


| | 


I now approach that portion of Mr. Arnold’s life 
and career with which [| was most familiar and in 
which I have always had the greatest interest. At 
the same election that Mr. Lincoln was elected presi- 
dent, in 1860, Mr. Arnold was elected a representative 
in ‘the thirty-seventh congress from the Chicago dis- 
trict. | had known him before as a gentleman and a 
lawyer, meeting him frequently at the sessions of the 
supreme court at Springfield and Ottawa. That con- 
gress met in extra session on the 4th of July, 1861. 
Its meeting was one of the most ‘momentous events 
ever recorded in the history of our country.  Presi- 
dent Lincoln, great, magnanimous, peaceful, patriotic, 
just, had made every effort consistent with his duty 
and his oath to support the constitution and enforce 
the laws, to bring the rebellious States back to their 
allegiance. The rebels, lawless, defiant, aggressive, 
had spurned every proposition that might lead to an 
understanding between the sections. Therefore, it 
was that at the opening of this congress, Mr. Lincoln's 
administration was confronted by an open rebellion. 
Blood had been shed and the flames of a civil war 
had been lighted in the country. It was under such 
circumstances Mr. Lincoln had convened Congress in 
extra session. ~The members of the Senate and House 
of Representatives met under this call for an extra 
session under a weight of responsibility which has 
rarely rested upon public men. 


At such a crisis men became naturally allied to 
each other. Intelligent, patriotic, courageous, firm of 


‘by 


purpose, and of undying loyalty, Mr. Arnold took his 
seat in that celebrated Congress and then commenced 
an intimacy and friendship between us, existing un- 
broken to the day of his death. The President and 
Mr. Arnold had known each other long and well. 
They had been associated as lawyers in the triak of 
causes and had been opposite counsel in important 
litigation. This long association at the Bar had made 
them to know one another well, and had engendered 
mutual respect and mutual regard. Mr. Lincoln 
hailed the election to Congress of Mr. Arnold with 
pleasure, for in him he saw the faithful friend, the 
wise counsellor, and the loyal and patriotic citizen. 
And hence it was, during all his administration, that 
he gave to him his fullest confidence and extended to 
him so many evidences of the high regard in which 


he held him. 


Though a new member, the consideration in 
which Mr. Arnold was held by his colleagues was 
shown by the unanimous request made to him that he 
should pronounce the eulogy in the House on behalf 
of Illinois on the occasion of the death of Mr. 
Douglas. His address was a glowing and merited 
tribute to the memory of that distinguished man. 
Trained in the arts of legislation by his service in 
the Illinois Legislature, conscious of his own ability 
and capacity, Mr. Arnold participated at once in the 
business of the House. On the 29th day of July, he 
entered into the discussion of the Internal Revenue 
Bill, and in a short and apt speech which convinced 


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the House of his ability as a debator, and what was to 
be his usefulness as a legislator. 

The regular session of the Thirty-seventh Con- 
gress met on Monday, the second day of December, 
1861. The country had then been plunged into all 
the horrors of a bloody civil war, and the loyal people 
looked forward to the opening of this regular session 
of Congress with the most intense interest. Mr. 
Arnold appeared and took his seat. He had felt his 
way somewhat cautiously in the extra session, but 
now he believed himself equal to taking a more 
prominent part in the legislation of the House. He 
participated in the discussion of nearly all the import- 
ant questions which came up for action, and he soon 
took rank as one of the ablest members of the body. 


I was in the House of Representatives for six- 
teen years, and during the most important epoch of 
our country’s history and at a time when so many of 
the ablest men of the nation were members of the 
House of Representatives, and was in a position to 
estimate and judge of men; and I can conscientiously 
say that I consider that Mr. Arnold was one of the 
ablest, the most useful, and most conscientious mem- 
bers with whom I was associated. Always at his post 
in the House and in the committee-room, he shunned 
no labor nor left any duty unperformed. He studied 
all questions and weighed all the arguments, Avo and 
con, on every subject on ‘which he was called upon to 
act. And then in deportment and bearing he was 
what a public man should. be, amiable, courteous, 


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affable, polite, and always a gentleman, making him- 
self esteemed and respected by all who had the good 
fortune to know him. I have sometimes thought that 
Chicago never did full justice to its congressman in 
those two celebrated Congresses during the war. In 
the excitement of the time and the whirl of events, 
men were often lost sight of. Mr. Arnold never daz- 
zled by brilliant speeches, got up for effect and to gain 
popular applause and cheap glory, but he devoted 
himself rather to the serious subjects of legislation 
with assiduity and intelligence. The Cozxgresszonal 
Globe, during his term of service, is an enduring 
monument to his great and useful labors, and that 


will remain as long as the Republic shall endure. 


In all matters of local importance before Con- 
gress, as well as in all matters in which his constituents. 
were interested, either in the Departments or in Con- 
gress, Mr. Arnold was especially active and efficient. 
He gave the Ship-Canal Bill a warm support, and _his. 
speech on the subject was one of the ablest which was. 
made. : | 

Coming from good old Revolutionary and Rhode 
Island stock, born and bred among the: freedom-lov- 
ing people of Northern New York, it could. hardly 
have been otherwise than that Mr. Arnold should 
have imbibed the strongest feelings of hostility to: 
human slavery. Through all his political associations, 
neither his opinions nor actions on that subject ever 
changed. He always acted with the anti-slavery men 
wherever he found them, and when slavery raised the. 


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standard of rebellion against the government, he took 
the most radical ground on the subject. He voted 
for the abolition of slavery in the District of Colum- 
bia, and as early as March, 1862, he introduced a 
bill, sweeping in its provisions, to prohibit slavery in 
every place subject to national jurisdiction. This bill 
was stoutly resisted, but Mr. Arnold pressed it with 
ability and persistence, and after some amendments, it 
became a law, June 19, 1862. He madea speech in 
the House on this bill, on the 19th day of May, 1862, 
‘and from a man of his naturally calm and conservative 
temperament, it was not only very able, but very radi- 
cal and aggressive. He denounced slavery as a mon- 
ster attempting to destroy a government which it had 
so long controlled. He said no man who loved his 
country and the Constitution could hold any other 
position toward it than one of hostility, and that every 
effort should be made to weaken and destroy it. 
“Whenever we can give it a Constitutional blow,” he 
exclaimed, ‘“‘le¢ ws do zt.’ And it may be said to his 
honor, few men in Congress, or out of Congress, dealt 
harder blows at the institution than he did. 

The ablest and most notable speech that Mr. 
Arnold made while a member of Congress was -that 
on the bill to confiscate rebel property, made May 2, 
1862. After passing in review the wickedness of the 
Rebellion, and the inhuman manner in which the 
rebels had conducted the war, and the necessity of 
prompt and vigorous action, he addressed himself to 
the legal questions involved, in an argument of great 


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ability and research, and which challenged the atten- 
tion of the lawyers of the House. He was an able 
lawyer, and all legal questions to which he gave his 
attention he treated with conspicuous ability and with 
a felicity of language quite rare in the discussion of 
points of law. 

From the high standing of Mr. Arnold in the 
House, and the advanced position he occupied on the 
slavery question, it was fitting and proper that he 
should take the initiative in a great measure of legisla- 
tion with which his name will ever be honorably 
associated, and which was the foundation of an enact- 
ment of more transcendant importance than any which 
ever adorned the statute-book of any nation. 


On the 15th day of February, 1864, Mr. Arnold 
introduced into the House of Representatives a reso- 
lution, which was passed, declaring that the Constitu- 
tion should be so amended as to ABOLISH SLAVERY 
IN THE UniTEeD States. This was the first step ever 
taken by Congress in favor of the abolition and pre- 
vention of slavery in the country. The ball was set 
in motion—the popular branch of Congress had made 
a solemn declaration which sent a throb of joy and 
hope to the heart of every lover of human freedom. 
The Senate was then so constituted that the two- 
thirds’ majority, necessary to submit a Constitutional 
amendment, was easily obtainable. The House hav- 
ing led the way by passing the declaratory resolution 
of Mr. Arnold in favor of a Constitutional amendment, 
the Senate passed the resolution on the 8th day of 


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April, 1864. But it failed to pass the House at that 
session of Congress, and it was not until the next ses- 
sion, on the 1st day of February, 1865, that the two- 
thirds’ majority was obtained in the House, and in the 
homely language of Mr. Lincoln, ‘‘¢he 706 finished.” 
In the debate in the House, Mr. Arnold made a 
passionate appeal for the passage of the joint-resolu- 
tion. Warming up in his remarks, and in a tone of 
true eloquence, he exclaimed: ‘In view of the long 
catalogue of wrongs that slavery has inflicted upon the 
country, I demand today of the Congress of the 
United States, the death of slavery. We can have no 
permanent peace while slavery lives. It now reels 
and staggers in its last death-struggle. Let us strike 
the monster this last decisive blow.” ‘Pass this joint- 
resolution,” he continued, ‘‘and the thirty-eighth Con- 
gress will live in history as that which consummated 
the great work of freeing a continent from the curse 
of human bondage. The great spectacle of this vote 
which knocks off the fetters of a whole race, will make 


)’ 
. 


this scene immortal And further on he continued: 
“T mean to fight this cause of the war—this cause of 
all the expenditure of blood and treasure from which 
my country is now suffering; this institution which 
has filled our whole land with sorrow, desolation, and 
anguish. I mean to fight it until neither on the 
statute-book nor in the Constitution shall there be left 
a single sentence or word which can be construed to 


emecain the stipendous wrong... ™ 9" * Let us 


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now, in the name of liberty, of justice, and of God, 
consummate this grand revolution. Let us now make 
our country ¢he hone of the free.” 


No member of the House of Representatives 
who was present when this resolution passed can 
ever forget that extraordinary scene. Mr. Arnold 
was full of rejoicing. In a graphic, racy, and inter- 
esting paper, entitled ‘‘ Reminiscences of Lincoln and 
of Congress during the Rebellion,” read by him in 
July, 1882, before the New-York Geneological and 
Biographical Society, he gave an account, among 
other things, of the passage by Congress of the 
‘Goint resolution to submit to the States the amend- 
ment to the Constitution abolishing slavery.” After 
seeing the great work, so near to his heart, accom- 
plished, he tells of the steps he took to obtain certain 
souvenirs connected with the legislation. When the 
resolution had been engrossed he procured an exact 
duplicate of the original, which was to go on file in 
the State department, and to that obtained the signa- 
tures of all the members of both Houses who had 
voted for it, to be treasured up as a memento of the 
occasion; and with sadness he tells the story of the 
Chicago Fire, which consumed that and so many 
other treasures. Profiting from his inspiration in this 
regard, I followed his example and procured precisely 
the same thing for myself; and looking at the names 
of all the members of both Houses, in their own 
proper handwriting, who voted for the resolution, there’ 
will be seen the name of Isaac N. Arnold, written in 


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his own bold, clear hand. Now that he has passed 
away, I never look upon it without emotion. 

It is impossible in the limits of this paper to do 
full justice to Mr. Arnold’s congressional record. The 
Congressional Globe shows with what zeal and ability 
he entered into the business of the House, and what 
light he shed on all subjects to which he gave his 
attention. He went to Congress to serve the country 
in its hour of peril and not for the objects of an un- 
worthy ambition. His colleague and his friend, | 
know how conscientiously and laboriously, how hon- 
estly and how ably he discharged his every duty. To 
those who knew him it goes without saying, that he 
was thoroughly incorruptible. There was never a 
lobbyist or corruptionist bold enough to approach him 
with even the slightest suggestion as to any action on 
his part favoring any object for private gain, and not 
for the public good. Such was his high character, his 
incorruptible integrity, and his elevated code of morals, 
that no man ever dared to approach him with an im- 
proper suggestion in respect of his official action. 


Mr. Arnold’s congressional career ended with the 
Thirty-eighth Congress, March 3d, 1865. During his 
whole term of service, not only from a sense of duty, 
but from his high personal regard. for the president, 
he had given the administration of Mr. Lincoln a 
loyal, able, and an efficient support. It was a matter 
of great regret and disappointment to that distin- 
guished man, as well as to all of his colleagues, that 
he did not return to Congress. He had served his 


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country and his constituents so faithfully and with 
such marked ability that he had challenged the respect 
and confidence of all familiar with his public career. 
On his return to his home in Chicago, at the adjourn- 
ment of the long session of Congress in July, 1864, 
he was tendered a magnificent reception, and a vote 
was passed, giving to him the thanks of the meeting 
for the able and valuable services he had rendered his 
country and his constituents in Congress. While not 
a candidate for re-election in 1864, he entered into the 
canvass for the re-election of Mr. Lincoln with great 
spirit, and his voice was heard in many States urging 
the people to sustain him in the great work of sup- 
pressing the rebellion. 


After the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, Mr. 
Arnold being then already engaged in writing a 
“History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of 
Slavery in the United States,” he accepted the 
appointment from President Johnson of auditor of 
the treasury for the post-office department, as a 
residence in Washington afforded him a more ready 
access to documents necessary for him to have in 
preparing his work. Subsequently, differing with 
President Johnson in respect of the policy he had 
adopted, he resigned the office which he had received 


bates hands. Returning to his home in Chicago in. 


1867, he completed his ‘History of Abraham Lincoln 
and the Overthrow of Slavery.” He brought to the 
preparation of that work the qualities of an able and 
conscientious historian, who wrote very largely from 


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personal knowledge and personal observation. His 
long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Lincoln had 
given him a thorough knowledge of his character and 
his mode of thought and action. As a member of 
that Congress for four years during the war, and 
which had accomplished such prodigies for the coun- 
try, he was from his own participation in it enabled to 
speak with authority. 

I have recently read again this work and am 
more impressed than ever with it as a work of sur- 
passing interest and of exceptional historic value. No 
where else can be found a more just appreciation of 
Mr. Lincoln and a more graphic and truthful recital 
of events then transpiring in Congress and on the 
theatre of military and political action throughout the 
country. Important and interesting facts are to be 
obtained therein which are not to be found elsewhere. 

Resuming his law practice in Chicago in 1872, 
Mr. Arnold continued actively in his profession for 
two or three years, when failing health compelled him 
to abandon it. From that time till his death, he lived 
the life of a retired gentleman in his pleasant home on 
the North-Side, among his books and papers, where, 
surrounded by his interesting and amiable family and 
congenial friends, he dispensed an elegant and graci- 
ous hospitality. It was then he found leisure to 
devote himself to favorite literary pursuits. With an 
inclination for historic research, with that power of 
analysis which a long practice at the Bar had given 
him, and with a rare felicity of composition, he 
devoted himself to historic themes. 


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It was in 1880 that Mr. Arnold breught out his 
“Life of Benedict Arnold—his Patriotism and _ his 
Treason,’ a most comely volume of more than_ four 
hundred pages. The book has been extensively read 
in the most intelligent circles. While it provoked a 
certain measure of criticism in some quarters, yet it 
was generally commended for the ability, fairness, and 
independence shown by the author. It was perhaps 
a bold undertaking to write the life of a man whose 
name and memory were so loaded down with infamy 
as were those of Benedict Arnold. But the author 
frankly tells us in his introduction what led him to 
undertake to tell the story of Benedict Arnold's life 
truthfully and impartially. He was conscious of the 
deep and universal prejudice existing against him, and 
was aware that the American people would listen with - 
impatience to his narrative. He had no desire to 
change the indignation and resentment felt against 
him, nor could he either excuse or extenuate his 
guilt. He wished “to make known his patriotic ser- 
vices, his sufferings, heroism, and the wrongs which 
drove him to a desperate action and induced one of 
the most heroic men of an heroic age to perpetrate an 
unpardonable crime.” Influenced by such considera- 
tions, and responsible only to himself for his opinions 
and judgments, Mr. Arnold did not hesitate to write 
the. ‘‘ Life of Benedict Arnold.” Itis the province on 
history to record facts, to pursue investigations, and 
narrate circumstances without regard to the characters 
of individuals. To sum up, Mr. Arnold has given to 


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the world a book of exceptional historic value, and for 
which all the lovers of biography and students of our 
Revolutionary history must be grateful. 

It is not the first time that there has been written 
the life of a man who has been set up in the “ pillory 
of history.” Dr. Robinet never lost anything in the 
estimation of the French people by writing the 
memoirs of Danton, nor Ernest Hamel for his history 
of Robespierre, nor Alfred Bougeart by his life of 
the monster Marat. Everywhere, Mr. Arnold has 
added to his reputation among literary, thoughtful, 
and reading men, by his ‘‘ Life of Benedict Arnold.” 
In the somewhat heated controversy which arose over 
the question of Gen. Arnold’s military services, the 
historian fully vindicated the positions he had taken, 
for no man was more successful in marshalling facts or 
in presenting deductions from established premises. 


But the great work of Mr. Arnold’s life, and 
upon which his reputation as a biographer and _histo- 
figneiust rest. is his. Lite-of Abraham’ Lincoln,” 
now in course of publication. His history of Mr. 
Lincoln and the overthrow of slavery, through an 
able, valuable, and interesting work; as I have de- 
scribed, was never. entirely satisfactory to the author, 
so far as it treated of Mr. Lincoln. He determined, 
therefore, two years since, to write anew the ‘ Life of 
Abraham Lincoln,” in the light of all the new material 
he had gathered. Stimulated by his admiration and 
friendship for that illustrious man, he devoted himself 
to the preparation of a life of one of the greatest men 


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who ever ‘‘lived in the tide of time’”—a man whose 
name is on all our lips and whose memory is in all our 
hearts—ABRAHAM LincoLn. He entered upon the 
work coz amore, and devoted to it all his efforts and all 
his thoughts. The preparation of the work occupied 
all his time and absorbed all his attention. So closely 
did he pursue his labors, and so intently were his 
thoughts occupied thereon, that his health, at no time 
rugged, within the last few years, began percepti- 
bly to give way. Still he persevered, and still he 
labored on, till the last chapter was finished, and the 
last finishing touches given. Never shall I forget the 
last interview | had with him only a few days before 
he died, as he lay pallid and emactated on his bed of 
death. Knowing all the interest I had felt in his 
book, he began to speak: of: it in° feebleyand) even 
plaintive tones, and closed by saying: ‘It was only 
when I had completed the last chapter that I col- 
lapsed.” And so it was, strengthened and buoyed up 
in his purpose to complete the great work of his life, 
when the task was finished, he laid down to die. The 
hour of his earthly existence had come finally to strike. 
Neither the prayers of wife and children, who did so 
much to sooth the pangs of his parting life, nor all 
their love, care, and devotion; neither the hopes of 
friends, nor the skill of physicians could stay the hand 
of death. His work was done, and peacefully and 
calmly and in Christian resignation he yielded up his 
soul to the God who gave it. 


Mr. Arnold’s ‘‘ Life of. Abraham Lincoln,” en- 


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riched by a captivating style, carefully studied and 
drawn from the most reliable sources of information, 
will become the standard life of a man whose name, 
linked in glory to that of Washington, will go down to 
the end of all the ages. 

Of an active mind, taking an interest in all pass- 
ing events, Mr. Arnold always found some subject to 
occupy his attention and to engage his pen, — Inde- 
pendent of the books he had written and published, 
he was the author of a great number of sketches, 
papers, biographies, and reviews, many of which have 
been published, and all of them are interesting and 
valuable in a personal and historical point of view. 
Associated for half-a-century with Illinois, and having 
been long and honorably identified with the State, he 
was always interested in all that appertained to our 
history and our public men. As a member of the 
legal profession, and as a man in public life, he was 
closely allied to many of the lawyers and judges, and 
to many men in official stations in the State, and he 
was never happier than when recounting the reminis- 
cences of his earlier professional and_ political life. 


To everything he undertook, Mr. Arnold brought 
the qualities of a ripe intelligence, great vigor, and a 
sound judgment. When at an age when most men 
rest, he was pursuing to its legitimate honors and 
rewards the career of a man of letters and of an_his- 
torian. Of the productions of Mr. Arnold’s busy and 
gifted pen which have been published in pamphlet 
form, | may mention: 


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1. His Address before the Chicago Historical 
Society of Nov. 9th, 1868, giving a history of the 
DOGIELY, -elG. 

2, “Sketch of MGGiIa oli bh Kinzie sere 
before the Chicago Historical Society, July 11, 1877. 

3. ‘Recollections of the Early Chicago and Hli- 
nois Bar”: a lecture before the Chicago Bar Asso- 
ciation, June 10, 1880. 

7 4. ‘Reminiscences (of them Himoigm bam conus 
Years Ago”: read before the Bar Association of the 
State of Illinois, at Springfield, Jan. 7, 1881. | 

5. A Paper on Abraham Lincoln: read “before 
the Royal Historical Society in London, June 16, 
1881. 

6. A Paper on William B. Ogden: read before 
the Chicago Historical Society, Dec. 20, 1881, on the 
presentation of a portrait of Mr. Ogden, by Healy, to 
the Historical Society. 

7. ‘Reminiscences of Lincoln and of Congress 
during the Rebellion”: being the anniversary address, 
delivered before the New-York Geneological and Bio- 
graphical Society, April 15, 1882. 

8. ‘Benedict Arnold at Saratoga’; reprinted 
from the “United’ Service.” “Reply to John emer 
Stevens, and new evidence of Mr. Bancroft’s error.” 

9g. A Paper on James Fennimore Cooper: read 
in 1883 before the Chicago Literary Society. 

10. Letter of Isaac N. Arnold to Bishop Clark- 


som: ‘Was Dr. De Koven legally elected Bishop of 
Illinois ?” 


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11. A Paper read before the Chicago Philo- 
sophical Society, Dec. 10, 1883, entitled, “‘ The Lay- 


man’s Faith.” 


Mr. Arnold had been one of the founders of the 


_Chicago Historical Society, and served many years as 


one of its vice-presidents. On the roth day of De- 
cember, 1876, he was elected president, and held the 
position uninterruptedly until the day of his death——a 
period of about seven and one-half years. So long 
identified with the Society, and giving to it his atten- 
tion and services, he did much to elevate its character 
and add to its usefulness. We-can never forget the 
regularity of his attendance upon all the meetings of 


_ the Society, his watchful care over all its interests, nor 


the dignity and courtesy which he presided over our 
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deliberations. 


With an intellectual and finely-chiseled face, of an 
erect and well-formed person, of quiet and gentleman- 
ly manners, and courteous carriage and bearing, Mr. 
Arnold was a man who always attracted attention. 
He was the soul of probity and honor. Neither the 
purity of his private life, nor the integrity of his public 
conduct was ever challenged; but in every position 
of life he stood before the world as an honest man, a 
cultivated gentleman, a good citizen, and a public ser- 
vant without reproach. ‘Those of us who have known 
him so well in this Society and in the daily walk of 
his life and conversation, will always guard for him a 
profound souvenir of respect and affection. 


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Husband, father, friend, neighbor, citizen — his 
ashes repose on the shores of that lake where he had 
passed a long and an honored life, and its waves shall 
forever sing his requiem. 


TRIBUTE OF HON. THOMAS DRUMMOND. 


Mr. PRESIDENT :—I propose only to make a few 
general remarks, leaving details to others. 

When Mr. Arnold came to Chicago in 1836, if some 
one had asked what were the qualities which would make 
him one of the principal men who would form and influ- 
ence the elements of the growth of a great city, he would 
have said that, as a professional man, he must be able and 
true to his clients; as a public man, conscientious and 
faithful in the discharge of all trusts committed to his 
hands, and as a citizen, honorable in all the relations 
which attach to that name. Mr. Arnold, in his life, from 
that time, when tried in these various positions, proved 
that he possessed all these qualities, and he was thus one 
of the leading men of the city, whose influence was always 
exerted for good. 

By his talents, industry, and fidelity, and conscious 
that success was with him a necessity—for it is not those 
who have, but those who gain a competence who achieve 
great distinction at the bar—he became one of the most 
eminent lawyers of the city and of the State. No man 
ever had his heart more in his cause, or more fully bent 
every faculty of his mind to succeed. 

As a public man, the sphere of his usefulness was 
greatly enlarged. He, as a member of the legislature and 
as a citizen, made the most strenuous efforts and exhibited 
great ability in his arguments and speeches to maintain 
the honor of the State in its dealings with its creditors. 


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As a member of Congress, he gave the whole energy of 
his mind and heart to sustain the administration of Lin- 
coln; to uphold the rights of man; to destroy slavery, and 
to preserve and consolidate the union of these States. 
We who were acquainted with him in those trying days 
know with how much devotion he sought to accomplish 
these great objects. A warm personal friend of Lincoln, 
he was one of his most trusted counsellors and advisers. 

It would be difficult to overrate the value of the ser- 
vices which he rendered to his State and the Nation while 
in public life. 

As aman and a citizen, his influence and efforts were 
always exerted in favor of sound morals and good govern- 
ment. When we look back to the condition of affairs that 
existed here nearly fifty years ago, we can appreciate the 
effect produced on professional, social, and political life 
by the character, habits, and conduct of Mr. Arnold, and 
can say, as the influence of a man so conspicuous is all- 
pervading, that the world is better for the life of such a 
man. 

It is fitting, therefore, that there should be placed on 
record, and especially in this Society, in which he took 
so deep an interest, and of which he was so long the pre- 
siding officer, an enduring memorial of the estimate which 
has been formed of his life and public services by his con- 
temporaries, in order that those who come after us here 
may know that he, of whom we now speak, was, in our 
judgment, thus of record, an eminent lawyer, a true patriot, 


and an honorable citizen. 


TRIBUTE OF HON. VAN H. HIGGINS. 


Mr. PRESIDENT:—I feel great distrust and diffidence 
in my ability to say what I think ought to be said of the 
honored deceased, whom I had known since his early man- 
hood, now more than forty years, and with whom I had 
been on terms of great intimacy and friendship for more 
than thirty years. Iam proud of that-intimacy and friend- 
ship. [am proud of his record as a man and as an hon- 
ored citizen of Chicago, and I am grateful for the example 
of his life and character. We owe a tribute of respect to 
the late Isaac N. Arnold, who devoted the best energies 
of his whole life to objects of benevolence and to the 
advancement of the cause of human freedom. His patri- 
otism and devotion to the cause of the Union and its pre- 
servation were untiring and ceaseless. In Congress and 
out of Congress, he was ever active and zealous, watchful 
and constant. In the beginning of the great struggle for 
the preservation of our national existence, Isaac N. Arnold 
was foremost in all that could be done to preserve and 
perpetuate this Union. Chicago had no truer patriot, no 
better friend of the enslaved negro, no more sympathizing 
friend of the wretched and suffering everywhere and at all 
times than Isaac N. Arnold. Although I had known him 
in all the relations of life, socially, politically, and profes- 


sionally, Iam here to speak only of his professional life, 


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and of Isaac N. Arnold asa lawyer. Other friends more 
eloquent will speak, I am sure, of the usefulness of the life 
of the deceased, and of the beauty and loveliness of his 
general character, which, during a long lifetime, so gained 
and held our love and affection. They will speak of him 
in the domestic relations of his life, as a trusty friend, a 
faithful husband, a kind father; as a distinguished and 
honored citizen; as a true gentleman, pure and spotless in 
all things, and in all the relations of life. They will tell 
of his philanthropy. Isaac N. Arnold was from his youth 
a philanthropist. He was the friend of enslaved and 
wretched bondsmen. He consecrated his best energies 
during his whole life to the emancipation of the poor slave, 
one of the noblest objects within the range of human be- 
nevolence. It was in the cause and interest of the poor 
slave that his heart swelled with more tenderness and _ his 
purse was opened more freely than in any other. They 
will speak of his great and untiring efforts in his early 
manhood in originating and organizing the Free-soil party 
of the United States. ‘They will speak of patriotic, un- 
selfish, and untiring devotion to the Union cause during 
our late struggle, and of his active, constant, zealous, watch- 
ful care of the public interests and the public trusts con- 
fided to him; of his eminent and useful services throughout 
a long life, and of him as a citizen of whom Chicago has 
always been proud. 

I will not attempt to speak of the honored deceased, 


save of him in his professional character as an advocate 


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and as a lawyer. Mr. Arnold, in his early life, was not 
favored by fortune. He had not the advantages of a col- 
legiate education. He had only such opportunities as 
were afforded by the country-schools and village academy. 
These he improved to such an extent as to fully prepare 
him for the prominent positions which he afterward occu- 
pied during his life, and which he filled so creditably to 
himself and so satisfactorily to his friends. At the early 
age of fifteen years, young Arnold found himself thrown 
upon his own resources, and from’ that time began the 
struggles of life for success and for future usefulness. He 
was emphatically “the artist of his own fortune.’ From 
seventeen to twenty, he occupied his time in teaching half 
the year, to enable him to pursue his studies the other 
half. He divided his time during this period between 
academic study, teaching, and reading law. During this 
period he entered the law-office of Richard Cooper of 
Cooperstown, N.Y. He subsequently became a student 
in the office of Judge E. B. Morehouse. In 1835, when 
he had scarcely attained his majority, he was admitted to 
the Supreme Court of New York. He immediately there- 
after formed a partnership with Judge Morehouse, which 
continued until his removal to Ghreagauss livetos7, he 
formed a partnership with Mahlon D. Ogden of this city, 
which continued for several years, building up a large and 
lucrative business. While a member of that firm in 1841, 
Mr. Arnold, being then only twenty-seven years of age, 


commenced and carried through to a successful termina- 


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tion, unaided and alone, the celebrated case of Bronson vs. 
Kinzie, which was finally determined by the Supreme 
Court of the United States in the winter of 1842. I men- 
tion this case because of its being a leading case in this 
country, among its celebrated cases, and because of its in- 
volving grave constitutional questions which Mr. Arnold 
was able to grapple with at that youthful period of his life, 
arguing this case at twenty-seven years of age in the 
highest court in the world, and contending against the 
ablest lawyers in the Nation. It demonstrates the learn- 
ing and capacity, the courage and fixedness of purpose of 
the young lawyer more satisfactorily than any words of 
eulogy. 

Mr. Arnold was more than a powerful and successful 
advocate and trial lawyer. He was a learned lawyer—a 
jurist, in the just sense of that term. For more than 
thirty years Mr. Arnold stood at the head of the Chicago 
bar. As a nist prius or trial lawyer there was scarcely 
his equal in the State; probably it can truthfully be said 
that he was one of the most successful, ingenious, and 
powerful jury lawyers in the Western country. The 
records of the various courts, State and Federal, show 
Mr. Arnold to have had an extensive and varied practice. 
Few lawyers in this or any other city have had a greater 
number of cases before the courts than Mr. Arnold, and 
these cases were generally of great importance, and in- 
volved the most varied learning, and called for the appli- 


cation of the most intricate and abstruse questions of law. 


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For atime, Mr. Arnold made a specialty of criminal prac- 
tice, and such was his success for many years that no man 
defended by him was ever convicted. His first important 
criminal case was the trial of a negro named Davit, who 
was accused of murdering his brother. Mr. Arnold being 
satisfied of his innocence, volunteered to defend him, and 
procured his acquittal. Among other noted criminal cases 
in which he appeared as counsel, that of Taylor Driscoll, 
charged with the murder of John Campbell, the leader of 
a band of “regulators” in Ogle County, IIL, is perhaps the 
most noted. He defended many other persons charged 
with murder in this and other counties, and, except in the 
case of Green, in this city, in 1854, who committed suicide 
before the final trial, it is believed he was successful in 
every instance. 

There is no one of the older members of the Chicago 
bar but will accord to Mr. Arnold the credit of having 
been one of the best trial lawyers that ever belonged to 
the Chicago bar. Mr. Arnold attained in life and in his 
profession all that an honorable and well-ordered ambition 
could hope for. He attained great eminence and distinc- 
tion in his profession and as a citizen. He acquired a 
competency, and his later years found him enjoying the 
comforts which wealth brings. He was a marked and 
conspicuous figure in the growth and development of our 
city, and his name will long be remembered as one of the 
originators and members and as the president of this 


Society, and as being connected with nearly every enter- 


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prise of benevolence, culture, refinement, and growth de- 
veloped in our city since he has been amongst us. 

I may say of him as a lawyer and as a citizen, in 
the language of Edmund Burke: ‘In all the qualities in 
which personal merit has a place, in culture, in erudition, 
in genius, in honor, in generosity, in humanity, in every 
sentiment and every liberal accomplishment, he was the 


peer of any man.” 


Jn Memoriam. 


for LOMAS HOY NE. 


eee viel Or LO NS OTN WENTWORTH: 


IN response to a resolution of the CHICAGO HISTORI- 
CAL SOCIETY, adopted September 18, 1883, requesting Hon. 
John Wentworth to prepare and deliver, upon some future 
occasion, a tribute to the memory of Hon. THOMAS HOYNE, 
at the regular meeting, held October 21st, 1884, Mr. Went- 
worth presented the following: 

Whereas, During the vacation of this Society, upon the 
night of the 27th of July, 1883, by an accident upon the 
Rome,-Watertown,-and-Ogdensburg Railroad, near Carlyon,* 
in the State of New York, Chicago lost one of its oldest 
and most valuable citizens, the cause of Chicago’s early 
history one of its most ardent devotees, and this Society 
one of its most active members, it is responsive to the sen- 


timents of his colleagues in this body that the following 
expression should be placed upon its record: 


THOMAS HOYNE was born in New-York City, Feb. 11, 
1817. At the age of thirteen he was an orphan without 
means. He arrived at Chicago, September 1, 1837. In the 
autumn of 1838, he was a school-teacher near the northwest 


corner of West-Lake and North-Canal Streets, and the three 


* Tt was reported at Carlton Station, Orleans County, N.Y. 


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district committee-men who employed him, Asahel Pierce, 
Francis H. Taylor, and Alson S. Sherman, still live, as well 
as the school-inspector, John Wentworth, who first met him 
there. Justice-of-the-peace and alderman, Calvin De Wolf, 
was his predecessor in the school. Previous to him was C. S. 
Bailey, who taught school from December, 1837, to May, 
1838, and then went to the Rock-River region in Wisconsin, 
where he had purchased a farm. Mr. H. early distinguished 
himself as an organizer of lyceums and asa participant in 
the debates therein. In 1840, he was elected city-clerk. 
During this year (Sept. 17), he married, when he was at the 
age of 23, Leonora M., daughter of John T. Temple, one of 
our oldest and most respected citizens. In 1847, he was judge 
of probate, United-States district-attorney in 1853, United- 
States marshal in 1859, and aad-tntertm and de-facto mayor, 
elected: by an almost unanimous vote during the time of our 
city’s greatest emergency in 1876. During a residence of 
over forty-five years, he was an active, useful, and exemplary 
citizen, always fearlessly outspoken in the cause of economy, 
honesty, liberty, and progress. He was always a warm 
opponent of repudiation, and depreciated money in any of 
devil-given forms, denouncing our stump-tail and wild-cat 
currency, and all dealers in it, as well as all forms of dis- 
honest banking, from the days of the old Illinois-State Bank, 
down to the days of the rotten but unburied Marine Bank. 
Honest money, equivalent to its face in gold, never had a 
more devoted champion than Thomas Hoyne. His word 


was as good as his note, and he never sought or used a char- 


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ter to cloak his individual dishonor. He ever rejected the 
doctrine that a man should not be held responsible in this 
world or in the next for his acts inside of a corporation, 
always regarding his corporate honor as sacred as his per- 
sonal. He could never understand how one and the same 
person could be a saint in his individual capacity and a 
demon in his corporate capacity. 

He was an active member of the Union-Defence Com- 
mittee during the war, and of the Municipal Reform-Club 
after it closed. He was one of the earliest protestants 
against the encroachments of the slave power upon our free 
territories. 

As an early and ardent advocate of our park system, 
there may be those who may contest priority with him. 
But to him belongs the undisputed credit of originating the 
idea of a continuous line of boulevards around our city. 
His object was to provide a boulevard for every man travel- 
ing from the lake or the river in any direction. He intended 
that the law should be so drawn that there should be no 
favoritism to any one locality. And he thought it was a 
fixed fact that all the boulevards were to be completed 
before any money could be expended upon the parks, and 
he ever believed that such a construction could be enforced 
by our courts. He was proverbially the greatest walker in 
our city, and he generally sought for his walks the lines of 
the boulevards, and especially the uncompleted portions, 
denouncing to people he might meet their delay as unjust 


and showing a partiality that was not exceeded in the 


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different administrations of England and Ireland; compar- 
ing the improvements around Drexel Boulevard to England 
and those around Garfield and the Western-Avenue Boule- 
vard to Ireland, and the Stock-Yards to the British govern- 
ment as dictating such a cruel and discriminative policy, 
not forgetting to mention that the balance of power in the 
board and with the judges who appointed them were either 
Irishmen or men of Irish descent. 

The towns of Lake and Bridgeport had never had a 
park-commissioner, and yet the judges could not have been 
elected without their vote. His name was often mentioned 
for park-commissioner, and no man could have defeated him 
had the commissioners been elected by popular vote. But 
his liberal views respecting the early completion of all the 
boulevards rendered him obnoxious to the Stock-Yards, 
which, lest there should be complaints under our sanitary 
laws, claim the balance of power in the park-board, in order, 
by delaying the completion of legal boulevards already paid 
for, to obstruct settlements to the west and southwest of 
them. 

But a few days before his death, he walked all around 
the South-Side boulevards, crossing over the canal-bridge 
at the Western-Avenue Boulevard and thence proceeding to 
Douglas Park, all the while stopping to converse with all 
persons whom he might meet upon the great injustice of 
delaying so long the Southwestern boulevard. At Douglas 
Park, he addressed quite a crowd of laboring classes who 


had gathered upon a picnic occasion, telling them that they 


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had been taxed for boulevards for other people and now 
was the time to insist upon some for themselves. When 
the boulevards shall perform their uninterrupted circuit 
around our city, which selfish corporations may delay but 
can not prevent, let a grateful posterity erect a worthy 
monument upon them to the undaunted perseverance and 
far-sighted philanthropy of Thomas Hoyne. The elm-trees 
now denied to fathers will yet irae children who will 
remember Mr. Hoyne in gratitude, and have the power to 
strike back at those corporations who have insisted upon 
such merciless injustice. 7 

On October 12, 1849, he purchased his last residence 
upon Michigan Avenue, where many of his children were 
born and where all were raised. He selected it for the 
beautiful view and the healthy breezes of the lake; and to 
his untiring efforts is due the inability of the great railroad 
corporations to wrest from our people the incalculable advan- 
tages of our unobstructed lake-front. No menaces could 
terrify, nor bribes seduce him. 

Mr. Hoyne was the owner of land in Sec. 23, Town 38, 
Range 13, in the town of Lake, which had been assessed and 
now was being taxed for park-and-boulevard purposes, well 
calculated in due time for suburban residences. He would 
often ask the question in view of the encroachments of great 
corporations, “ Where was he to go?” The railroads would 
divest him of the unobstructed view and pure air of Lake 
Michigan, for which he had so long since paid full value, 


whilst the stock-yards were denying him improvements to 


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render a suburban home comfortable upon the Western- 
Avenue Boulevard, for which he had liberally paid and was 
still annually taxed. 

As a preventer of corporate encroachments upon indi- 
vidual rights, Chicago has not had an abler man than Thomas 
Hoyne. He was always a man for an emergency, abounding 


in moral courage and having public confidence at his back. 
The people could ever trust Thomas Hoyne, and he never 


abused this trust. He was a leading member of the Chicago 
bar, and no man was more highly respected by the judiciary 
or his professional brethren. 

His personal activity and strength of mind increased 
with age, and he has left to his seven children (of every one 
of whom any parent could be proud) a rich legacy in his doc- 
trine illustrated by his example that personal, professional, 
corporate, religious, financial, and political honor is identical 
and inseparable. As an impromptu orator to miscellaneous 
crowds suddenly met in public places, Chicago has had no 
equal to Thomas Hoyne, and no man has ever lived to ques- 
tion the sincerity of his motives in his unstudied efforts to 
arouse the masses to a sense of the injustice inflicted upon 
them. 

This Society, recognizing the value of the services and 
example of such an early and long-tried citizen’as Thomas 
Hoyne, does hereby, as a token of deserved and heartfelt 
respect, 

Resolve, Vhat a copy of this preamble and testimonial 


be entered upon its records and a copy thereof be forwarded 


ae sini: pat HAL) 
pe ; ved ‘amily -; and, ee that a portrait, of 
him be rea les ted. of them to be hung upon the walls of 


‘this inst 


e br rrightest ornaments of Chicago's 


itution, to remain as a memorial to posterity of one 


early history. 


